Health benefits of decreases in on-road transportation emissions in the United States from 2008 to 2017.
Choma EF, Evans JS, Gómez-Ibáñez JA, Di Q, Schwartz JD, Hammitt JK, Spengler JD.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 12 21. 118(51). PMID: 34903648
Professor Hammitt's research concerns the development and application of quantitative methods—including benefit-cost, decision, and risk analysis—to health and environmental policy. Topics include management of long-term environmental issues with important scientific uncertainties, such as global climate change and stratospheric-ozone depletion, evaluation of ancillary benefits and countervailing risks associated with risk-control measures, and characterization of social preferences over health and environmental risks using revealed-preference, stated-preference, and health-utility methods. He has served on six National Academies of Sciences panels, more than a dozen advisory committees to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other government agencies, is a fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis, and in 2015 received the SRA’s Distinguished Achievement Award for “for extraordinary achievement in science or public policy relating to risk analysis.”
AB, 1978, Applied Mathematics
Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts
ScM, 1978, Applied Mathematics
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
MPP, 1981
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
PhD, 1988, Public Policy
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Choma EF, Evans JS, Gómez-Ibáñez JA, Di Q, Schwartz JD, Hammitt JK, Spengler JD.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 12 21. 118(51). PMID: 34903648
Hammitt JK.
Nature. 2021 04. 592(7855):514-515. PMID: 33883725
Hammitt JK, Robinson LA.
Risk Anal. 2021 04. 41(4):559-564. PMID: 33843076
Eber MR, Sunstein CR, Hammitt JK, Yeh JM.
J Risk Uncertain. 2021 Feb. 62(1):29-54. PMID: 34385760
Evans JS, Rojas-Bracho L, Hammitt JK, Dockery DW.
Risk Anal. 2021 04. 41(4):661-677. PMID: 33368456
Adler MD, Ferranna M, Hammitt JK, Treich N.
J Health Econ. 2021 01. 75:102412. PMID: 33373936
Buonocore JJ, Robinson LA, Hammitt JK, O'Keeffe L.
Risk Anal. 2021 04. 41(4):645-660. PMID: 33249613
Hammitt JK.
J Risk Uncertain. 2020. 61(2):129-154. PMID: 33199940
Choma EF, Evans JS, Hammitt JK, Gómez-Ibáñez JA, Spengler JD.
Environ Int. 2020 11. 144:106015. PMID: 32858467
Herrera-Araujo D, Hammitt JK, Rheinberger CM.
J Health Econ. 2020 07. 72:102341. PMID: 32531565
Decreasing vehicle emissions since 2008 have reduced by thousands the number of deaths attributable to air pollution, yielding billions of dollars in benefits to society, according to a new study led by Harvard Chan School researchers.
Three Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health scientists are among investigators across six Harvard schools who will share over $1 million in the second round of grants awarded by the Climate Change Solutions Fund, an initiative launched…